#political

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. ↗

— George Lakoff

#george-lakeoff #humor-inspirational #political-humor #political-science #politics

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people... ↗

— T. Rafael Cimino

#greed #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #political-commentary #political-philosophy

Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right. the United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent.It's history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#politics-of-the-united-states #intelligence

The greatest power is not money power, but political power. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#greatest #money #political #political power

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#cells #democracy #dictatorship #eat #freedom

No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. ↗

— Henry F. Ashurst

#great #great principle #his #life #man

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#decision making #democracy #first #first thing #go

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always. ↗

— M. Russell Ballard

#convenient #correct #easy #may #politically

We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are. ↗

— Ed Balls

#bold #come #credible #edge #forward

Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it. ↗

— Craig Benson

#answers #better #better ways #come #different